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by vlunkr 4y ago
Maybe there are “hit pieces” because there actually are downsides to working remote? For the average HN user it’s probably great, but there are plenty of reasons why it could suck. Personality type, job type, living conditions, internet op
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Here’s my hot take: because of the deeply held cultural belief that screen time is bad and books are good. Certainly there are truths behind that, but I think we need to realize that videos and even video games can be informative, uplifting
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by vlunkr 4y ago
This took me too long to learn. We're told over and over to "be yourself," but sometimes you have to make an effort to be like everyone else. I see in the author and in myself sometimes a weird sense of pride in having unusua
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by vlunkr 4y ago
People are real salty here. Yeah, being a walking billboard is pretty silly, but what if we like the way the logo looks? There's a reason The Misfits are more successful with merch than music: because people like to wear stuff with awe
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by vlunkr 4y ago
If you look at the popular vote then this is clearly wrong in two ways. Rich land and business owners don't make up half the population. And if you're implying that most religious people vote republican, then they should be absolu
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by vlunkr 4y ago
There are like 6 different places where you can rent just one movie to stream for a couple of days. Big streaming packages like Netflix aren't the only option.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
You can rent nearly any movie in existence for less than 5$, is piracy really the best option. Also, most people don’t care about DRM if they even know what it is.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
> Making more money? Honestly, what would it hurt? They can continue to publish the more raw works, you're not losing anything. I didn't finish the Hobbit films and I'm still alive.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
This might be blasphemous among LOTR fans, but I wish the Tolkien family would work with other authors to complete these stories. You can still publish all the drafts and notes you want, but I would love to see them written in a more digest
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I would recommend those to anyone here that hasn't seen them. I think this requires a big shift in community thinking. Programmers are trained in universities to throw OOP principles at every problem, and the DRY principle has deeply t
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by vlunkr 4y ago
> internet use has exploded exponentially since last decade Also the number of bots has exploded, that must account for some of the searches.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
This question is going to make me sound like a jerk, but why do you want to write your back-end in JS? Deno looks like a great improvement over node.js, but I don't feel compelled to use it. It seems like people jumped to node based on
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Shouldn't the tagline be more like "Build Ruby on Rails admin panels 10x faster"? Since that seems to be the intent.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
What about this open letter makes these people "woke cry babies?" The thesis of it is that his behavior online is embarrassing and bringing down the reputation of the company. That seems like pretty valid criticism to me. This guy
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by vlunkr 4y ago
But then the warehouses are understaffed... Not sure that's a win
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by vlunkr 4y ago
To be pedantic, you probably can’t pay your mortgage on credit, or cash flow from paychecks if you lose your job. Maybe I just come from an old school financial philosophy, but I don’t understand this aversion to being financially independe
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Seems like you’re being just as hostile in the other direction. If this isn’t the appropriate time to complain about Microsoft, then what is? I can’t speak for everyone, but I continue to not like Microsoft because they don’t make a single
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by vlunkr 4y ago
It’s still wise IMO to have some liquid cash on hand. In the event that you lose your job or have some unexpected big expenses come up.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
The point of the article is that experts don't always hang out on the internet. There's a small cross-section of people who are truly experts at something, and also blog or discuss it in online forums. So yeah, you can talk to peo
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by vlunkr 4y ago
> you can scale horizontally in a lot easier fashion. I think you need to define "easier" here. It's easy to launch more instances of your rails app.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Right, but then they say "Although structuring GitLab as a monolith has been extremely beneficial for us, we are not dogmatic about that structure." And looking at their source code, they aren't following that very strictly.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
They don't really bother to say what their "modular monolith" looks like, besides being "well-structured, well-architected", and tautologically, "highly modular."
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I hadn't heard that before, it's great. I like how he states that simpler software doesn't necessarily mean fewer components (roughly quoting). Where the article argues for fewer boxes and arrows. It's hard to argue spec
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by vlunkr 4y ago
That's just an example. You want some more? https://www.electronjs.org/apps
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Agreed. I know Electron isn't ideal, but as a Linux user, I have a pretty hard time complaining. In the pre-electron world, something like Slack for linux either wouldn't exist, or would be several versions behind other platforms
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Not the person you're responding to, but it sounds like they're going in a different direction with Zed in terms of the tech stack, where VSCode is pretty similar to Atom.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
They didn't say they aren't interested in the idea, they just expressed skepticism. > Should there be a debate whether or not it's theoretically possibly for this to work out logistically? What is the value in that? Certai
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Exactly, maybe it's not a bad start, but it would be better to strike at the heart of the issue. I don't know exactly the story with insulin, but I'm sure it's got something to do with our bad patent laws in the medical
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I certainly agree with that, but also, isn't this the sort of communication that the Internet was built for? What if you live in the middle of nowhere and you want to chat with someone about something none of your neighbors are into? I
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Someone should make a platform like this that somehow de-incentivizes influencer culture. I want to see regular people having conversations, not trying to build a following. It's a poison that has snuck into essentially every social me

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